The audience enters an incense-heavy space, greeted by a towering sculpture of light-colored sheets lit from the outside.  their eye catches on a patchwork priest working on a canvas full of slashes of paint, water and candle wax. the priest welcomes them to sit, and begins moving about the space and speaking/humming/chanting.  the audience attends a service and is then invited to participate in an act of confession: enter the towering sculpture of sheets and share your sins, sins against you, feelings, silence.  

The painting, ‘Stigmata’, is an abstract process piece and will be actively in progress during every performance of the ritual using acrylic paint, water, candle wax, and ink on canvas; using the act of painting as a physical meditation focusing on purging the ‘sins’ confessed and remembered by myself. It is a physical ‘Act of Reconciliation’.